Research Catalog

Title

The darkness of the present : poetics, anachronism, and the anomaly / Steve McCaffery.

Author

McCaffery, Steve

Publication

Tuscaloosa, Ala. : University of Alabama Press, c2012.

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Details

Description

viii, 282 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Summary

The Darkness of the Present includes essays that collectively investigate the roles of anomaly and anachronism as they work to unsettle commonplace notions of the "contemporary" in the field of poetics. Book jacket.

Series Statement

Modern and contemporary poetics

Uniform Title

• Project Muse UPCC books
• Modern and contemporary poetics

Subject

Poetics

Genre/Form

Poetry

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Cacophony, abstraction, and potentiality: the fate of the dada sound poem -- Corrosive poetics: the relief composition of Ronald Johnson's radios -- Interpretation and the limit text: an approach to Jackson Maclow's Words and ends from Ez -- Transcoherence and deletion: the mesostic writings of John Cage -- A chapter of accidents: disfiguration and the marbled page in Laurence Sterne's The life and opinions of Tristram Shandy, gentleman -- From muse to mousepad: informatics and the avant-garde -- Parapoetics and the architectural leap -- "To lose one's way" (for snails and nomads): the radical labyrinths of constant and arakawa and gins -- Difficult harmony: the picturesque detail in Gilpin, price, and Clark Coolidge's Space -- The 'pataphysics of Auschwitz -- The instrumental nightingale: some counter-musical inflections in poetry from Gray to Celan.

ISBN

• 9780817357337 (quality paper : alk. paper)
• 0817357335 (quality paper : alk. paper)
• 9780817386429 (ebook)
• 0817386424 (ebook)

LCCN

^^2012015849

OCLC

• 790270783
• SCSB-10878530

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library